Monday, May 4, 2020

UIDAI
ALLOWS AADHAAR UPDATION FACILITY THROUGH CSCS – UPDATE

In a major relief
to those living in rural areas, the Unique Identification Authority of India
(UIDAI) has allowed the Common Service Centre, an SPV under the Ministry of IT
and Electronics, to begin the Aadhaar updation facility at their 20,000 CSCs
which operate as Banking Correspondents (BCs), said Union Minister for
Communications, MEITY and Law and Justice Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad in a tweet.

Union Minister
tweeted that around 20,000 CSCs will now be able to offer this service to
citizens. He urged the CSC VLEs to start the Aadhaar work with responsibility
and as per instructions issued by UIDAI in this regard. He further said that
this facility will help a large no of rural citizens to get Aadhar services
closer to their place of residence.

UIDAI has set June
deadline for the commencement of the work after CSCs with banking facilities
upgrade their required infrastructure and get other necessary approvals.
However, CSC CEO Dr Dinesh Tyagi said he has asked all BCs to immediately
finish technical and other upgradation which the UIDAI has asked for so that
Aadhaar updation work can be started soon.

Thanking the Union
Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad for getting Aadhaar updation work restarted
through CSC, Dr Tyagi said it would further strengthen the efforts of achieving
the goals of “Digital India” as envisaged by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.

Commencement of
Aadhaar update services through CSC also comes across as a big relief during
the lockdown restrictions imposed to prevent spread of COVID19. With these
20,000 additional centers available to update Aadhaar, the users particularly
in rural areas need not visit Aadhaar centres in bank branches or Post Offices
for this work.